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Alpha Mission

Alpha Mission, known as ASO: Armored Scrum Object in Japan, is a 1985 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by SNK for Japanese arcades; it was released by Tradewest in North America. It was later ported to the Famicom in 1986 and released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987.

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Genre
Scrolling shooter
Publisher
NA: Tradewest (arcade)
Artist
Rampty
Designer
Koji Obata
Developer
SNK
Mode
Single-player

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Alpha Mission

Nodes33
Edges32
Triples33
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.060606
Components1

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Alpha Mission

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related to Release · 17
Alpha Mission → Anniversary Collection, Arcade Archives, Hamster Corporation, It, Japanese, July, NES, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, October, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Store, PSP Minis, SNK, The, Western/international
related to Gameplay · 4
Alpha Mission → Like, Missiles, The, Throughout
related to External links · 3
Alpha Mission → Arcade-HistoryAlpha Mission, Killer List, Videogames
Release · 2
Alpha Mission → JP: November 1985, NA: May 1986
Artist · 1
Alpha Mission → Rampty
Designer · 1
Alpha Mission → Koji Obata
Developer · 1
Alpha Mission → SNK
Genre · 1
Alpha Mission → Scrolling shooter
Mode · 1
Alpha Mission → Single-player
Platforms · 1
Alpha Mission → Arcade, NES

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arcade alpha mission game released 1986 snk japan system 1985 scrolling shooter tradewest weapons seven table north release nes player

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Alpha MissionArtistRampty1.00infobox
Alpha MissionDesignerKoji Obata1.00infobox
Alpha MissionDeveloperSNK1.00infobox
Alpha MissionGenreScrolling shooter1.00infobox
Alpha MissionModeSingle-player1.00infobox
Alpha MissionPlatformsArcade, NES1.00infobox
Alpha MissionPublisherNA: Tradewest (arcade)1.00infobox
Alpha MissionReleaseJP: November 19851.00infobox
Alpha MissionReleaseNA: May 19861.00infobox
Alpha Missionrelated to External linksArcade-HistoryAlpha Mission0.60section
Alpha Missionrelated to External linksKiller List0.60section
Alpha Missionrelated to External linksVideogames0.60section

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